151 Success Quotes About Life, Business & Achievement

Are you looking for some motivation for success? Then find here the list of 151 inspirational quotes about success.

Not everyone gets success easily. To achieve success, there is a need for necessary knowledge, skill, ability, diligence, and repeated efforts.

No one gets success overnight. The person has to face defeat and failure before he can achieve success. But this defeat or failure is temporary because when a person tries with repeated efforts with his dedication, he gets success.

In this article, we are sharing the list of 151 Success Quotes, which will help you to stay focused on your goal of get success. At the same time, it will tell inspire you that no matter what difficulty comes, no matter how many times you fail, but never stop trying.

Best Success Motivation Quotes & Sayings

1. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” ― Albert Einstein

2. “If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is playing, and z is keeping your mouth shut” ― Albert Einstein

3. “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” ― Roy T. Bennett

4. “I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.” ― Abraham Lincoln

5. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ― Winston S. Churchill

6. “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get” ― W. P. Kinsella

7. “Never let your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up. Never let your mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on the right track, the rest will follow.” ― Roy T. Bennett

8. “Never stop dreaming, never stop believing, never give up, never stop trying, and never stop learning.” ― Roy T. Bennett

9. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ― Robert F. Kennedy

Great quotes about success

10. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” ― Napoleon Hill

11. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.” ― Abraham Lincoln

12. “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” ― George Bernard Shaw

13. “Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.” ― Zig Ziglar

14. “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

15. “Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” ― Joyce Brothers

16. “When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.” ― Stephen Richards

17. “Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.” ― Ben Carson

18. “To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.” ― Sidney Sheldon

Famous quotes about success

19. “For success, doing is not enough. We must love what we do.” ― Debasish Mridha

20. “Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.” ― Napoleon Hill

21. “Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.” ― Idowu Koyenikan

22. “More often than not, the secret of success lies in the very basic the very small wins. The small, consistent and disciplined steps lead to big successes.” ― Abhishek Ratna

23. “The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.” ― Napoleon Hill

24. “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in installments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day’s success.” ― Israelmore Ayivor

25. “Positive thinkers never allow fears to intimidate them because they have seen themselves succeeded already.” ― Israelmore Ayivor

Short Inspiring Success Quotes

26. “If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.” ― Brad Szollose

27. “Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.” ― E. James Rohn

28. “You came to the earth with loads of inspirations and influence. Dare to offload them out of you before you die. Give out all you carry along into the world and when you are ready to go back, go empty-handed!” ― Israelmore Ayivor

29. “Attitude is a silent force that can make all the difference between success and failure.” ― Victor Kwegyir

30. “Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.” ― Zig Ziglar

31. “If you really want to eat, keep climbing. The fruits are on the top of the tree. Stretch your hands and keep stretching them. Success is on the top, keep going.” ― Israelmore Ayivor

32. “When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it.” ― Jim Rohn

33. “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” ― Benjamin Disraeli

Quotes about achieving success

34. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” ― Dale Carnegie

35. “The difference between success and failure is not giving up.” ― Steven Redhead

36. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston S. Churchill

37. “If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” ― W.C. Fields

38. “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.” ― Roy T. Bennett

39. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.” ― Mark Twain

40. “A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between, he does what he wants to do.” ― Bob Dylan

41. “Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens” ― Tony DeLiso

42. “Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn’t what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You…Be Free…Share.” ― Steve Maraboli

43. “Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.” ― Dalai Lama XIV

Positive quotes for success

44. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” ― Vince Lombardi

45. “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” ― Francis Chan

46. “The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.” ― Stephen Richards

47. “Don’t confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!” ― Steve Maraboli

48. “If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.” ― Dr. Roopleen

49. “Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people…but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead, get even with those who have helped us.” ― Steve Maraboli

50. “Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it…” ― Wilferd Peterson

51. “Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

Best quotes about success

52. “Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.” ― Roy T. Bennett

53. “Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct.” ― Brian Tracy

54. “To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone.” ― Reba McEntire

55. “The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focused on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.” ― Dr. Roopleen

56. “You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.” ― Vernon Howard

57. “When you fail, that is when you get closer to success.” ― Stephen Richards

58. “When you have clear goals and how you will identify successful tactics to achieve them, then “winning” becomes what you do best.” ― Germany Kent

59. “The key to continued success is to discard what doesn’t work.” ― Germany Kent

60. “If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon” ― Po Bronson

61. “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” ― Albert Einstein

62. “Be careful you don’t give up on what is yet to give you victory. Many people quit when they were yet to win. Successful people never quit and I believe no quitter had ever been successful too.” ― Israelmore Ayivor

63. “The secret for mastery is concentration; the success of concentration is in elimination. Avoid everything in general and focus on one thing in particular. You will be a master!” ― Israelmore Ayivor

Motivational Quotes About Success

64. “Be passionate and become successful. Share your success, be it information, income, or emotions with someone who needs them most. You are a success… Make an impact!” ― Israelmore Ayivor

65. “Go as far as you can see and you will see further.” ― Zig Ziglar

66. “Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.” ― John C. Maxwell

67. “Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It’s just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimeter by millimeter.” ― Israelmore Ayivor

68. “The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying” ― John C. Maxwell

69. “Free yourself from the complexities of your life! A life of simplicity and happiness awaits you.” ― Steve Maraboli

70. “You are likely to fall when you stop paddling your bicycle. Such is life. As long as you don’t give up, you will never end up failing!” ― Israelmore Ayivor

71. “Prepare yourself for success. You have to see it coming to get there.” ― Destiny Booze

72. “Success in this world depends on knowing exactly how little effort each job is worth…distribution of energy…” ― Evelyn Waugh

73. “The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” ― Bette Midler

74. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” ― Walt Disney

75. “Success is not found in the result. Success is found in the efforts toward results.” ― Todd Stocker

Inspirational quotes about success

76. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” ― Albert Schweitzer

77. “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” ― Coco Chanel

78. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” ― Bill Cosby

79. “Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.” ― Bernard Branson

80. “Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.” ― Robert T. Kiyosaki

81. “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” ― Booker T. Washington

82. “Success is a mindset and not a point in time but an inbuilt combination of character, discipline, behaviors and set of principles that make who the person becomes” ― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

83. “Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.” ― Stephen Richard

84. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” ― John R Wooden

Best motivational quotes for success

85. “I do not like to repeat successes I like to go on to other things.” ― Walt Disney

86. “One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.” ― Michelle Obama

87. “Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” ― Mario Andretti

88. “The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and you fly.” ― Israelmore Ayivor

89. “Success is not a result. Success is a mindset.” ― Meir Ezra

90. “If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.” ― Anna Quindlen

91. “A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.” ― Alexandre Dumas

92. “With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable” ― Thomas Fowell Buxton

93. “A hopeful life is a successful life. People who bury their hopes and crave for someone’s success never know that their diamond is hidden as they envy other’s silver!” ― Israelmore Ayivor

Best Success Quotes

94. “It is highly impossible for you to be successful at what you don’t love. Do what you love and love what you do.” ― Israelmore Ayivor

95. “It feels great to know that whatever you need to achieve your dreams is in you. Whatever the spider needs to make a cobweb is not in the housefly. Look to yourself; you have what it takes to weave your success!” ― Israelmore Ayivor

96. “Most times, success does not come as tiny droplets of showers freely falling on every roof; it comes in heavy flows like a stream. Use the bigger dream barrels!” ― Israelmore Ayivor

97. “Success is to wake up each morning and consciously decide that today will be the best day of your life.” ― Ken Poirot

98. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” ― John D. Rockefeller

99. “Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.” ― Mia Hamm

100. “Don’t waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.” ― Clarissa Pinkola Estés

101. “To become successful, one must put themselves in the paths of giants!” ― Lillian Cauldwell

102. “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal” ― Thomas S. Monson

103. “Success is doing what you want to do when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.” ― Anthony Robbins

104. “Success is something you experience when you act accordingly. Success is not something you have, it’s something you do.” ― Steve Maraboli

Best Inspiring Success Quotes & Sayings

105. “When the actions become frequent than the words, success becomes heavier than the dreams. Do more, say less.” ― Israelmore Ayivor

106. “It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” ― Mark Twain

107. “You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.” ― Booker T. Washington

108. “Remember, results aren’t the criteria for success — it’s the effort made for achievement that is most important.” ― John Wooden

Successful people Quotes

109. “Successful people bring about new things. Unsuccessful people move around things which were already created by those who can observe – those who can create something from nothing.” ― Meir Ezra

110. “Successful people have no fear of failure. But unsuccessful people do. Successful people have the resilience to face up to failure—learn the lessons and adapt from it.” ― Roy T. Bennett

111. “Successful people are not people without problems; they are simply people who have learned to solve their problems by utilizing the powers of their minds.” ― Abhishek Ratna

112. “Successful people enjoy the journeys they embark on, irrespective of whether they reach their destination or not.” ― Zain Hashmi

113. “Some say if you want success surround yourself with successful people. I say if you want true and lasting success surround yourself with people of integrity.” ― Charles F. Glassman

114. “Successful people are defined as ordinary people who never gave up on their dreams and passion is the secret of that persistence!” ― Israelmore Ayivor

115. “All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” ― Brian Tracy

116. “Passion is different from interest. Those who are just interested in things have the “wish”, but passionate people have the “will”.” ― Israelmore Ayivor

117. “Successful people perform at the highest level of proficiency, are open-minded, and are able to converse with a range of other individuals from various populations, cultures, and lifestyles.” ― Germany Kent

118. “Passionate people say to their obstacles “I may fall, I may lose everything I have, but if I still get me, you are still in trouble because am coming back and when I come back, you are doomed”. Passion is a serious secret that sailed people to the top!” ― Israelmore Ayivor

119. “Successful people know how to share their own dreams with other people.” ― Eraldo Banovac

120. “Successful men, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession. Those who are not successful usually make the mistake of believing that the knowledge acquiring period ends when one finishes school. The truth is that schooling does but little more than to put one in the way of learning how to acquire practical knowledge.” ― Napoleon Hill

121. “I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God’s standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.” ― Jimmy Carter

122. “For a successful life, you should have to learn from your past. Think the mistakes you’ve made in the past, but learn from that instead of regret.” ― Zeeshan Ali

123. “Never allow yourself to stay at the bottom of your internal ladder to personal success. Take your spot on the top rung of your life.” ― Christine E, Szymanski

124. “Success doesn’t come to you; you go to it.” ― T. Scott McLeod

125. “The people we consider success in our society are all people that seize every moment and make the best of each situation.” ― Steve Maraboli

126. “Success is constant. Any time you achieve more than you did the day before, the year before; any time you add a piece to the framework that will someday determine your ultimate goal, you have achieved some degree of success.” ― Carlos Wallace

127. “A truly successful person is not one who achieves his highest ambitions, but one who enjoys helping others reach theirs.” ― Charbel Tadros

128. “A truly successful person may not need inspiration, but he becomes an inspiration to others by his courageous actions.” ― Debasish Mridha

129. “A complainer rarely succeeds; a successful person rarely complains.” ― Debasish Mridha

Business Success Quotes

130. “If you want success and longevity for your business, earning a reputation for integrity is crucial. People want to work with people and companies they can trust. Trying to hide a mistake and hope nobody notices or passes the buck does not inspire confidence or respect—from anyone, employees, vendors, or customers alike. Owning up shows integrity and whatever embarrassment you may feel is worth it because, in the end, people will likely trust you more going forward. It’s not the mistake that is a deal-breaker, it’s being dishonest about it.” ― Ziad Abdelnour

131. “If you make a mistake, don’t spend precious time and energy trying to deny it or point the finger at someone else. Be a leader and own it, then spend your time and energy fixing the problem. As I’ve already noted, start-ups often fail because founders want to be seen as the smartest person in the room, which means not being wrong. Making a mistake is going to happen. None of us is perfect. But the difference between success and failure is how you handle that mistake.” ― Ziad Abdelnour

132. “Without seeking truth it is unlikely you will find success. The truth very well might set you free, but it’s not always fun. People say they want the truth, but more accurately, they want the truth that is easy to hear. They don’t want the painful truths that don’t support our decisions or force us to accept we were wrong about something. But without truth, you will never be able to course-correct. Putting the company first and your bruised feelings second is an important step in saving your start-up from failure.” ― Ziad K. Abdelnour

Success Quotes for Business Motivation

133. “If you make a mistake, don’t spend precious time and energy trying to deny it or point the finger at someone else. Be a leader and own it, then spend your time and energy fixing the problem. As I’ve already noted, start-ups often fail because founders want to be seen as the smartest person in the room, which means not being wrong. Making a mistake is going to happen. None of us is perfect. But the difference between success and failure is how you handle that mistake” ― Ziad K. Abdelnour

134. “The type of person you are is usually reflected in your business. To improve your business, first improve yourself.” ― Idowu Koyenikan

135. “When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.” ― Idowu Koyenikan

136. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” ― Richard Branson

137. “Focusing on Earning the Right will have an incredible effect on the success of every single sale call that you will make from this day on.” ― Chris Murray

138. “People or businesses that measure their success based on the failure of their competitors have already failed. True success is not when you have eliminated or overtaken your competitors, it is when you have converted them into partners.” ― Charbel Tadros

139. “Always consider who you’re learning from. Don’t listen to people who are not experiencing the success you want.” ― Ehab Atalla

Business motivational quotes

140. “Watch, listen and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.” ― Donald Trump

141. “When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.” ― Ellen DeGeneres

142. “Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.” ― Dr. Roopleen

143. “To dream of success is to set a goal of where you want to be; to wake up, take action, and achieve it is what true success is all about.” ― Idowu Koyenikan

144. “If you’re in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.” ― Warren Buffett

145. “You don’t need an MBA from an elite Ivy League school to find funding and be successful, but you do need to understand the start-up ecosystem.” ― Ziad K. Abdelnour

146. “You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” ― Warren Buffett

147. “Attitude counts in business. Courtesy, respect for time, addressing people by their name or appropriate title, use of sorry, please and thank you can significantly impact your bottom line. Never throw them to the wind as a business owner.” ― Victor Kwegyir

148. “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.” ― Steve Jobs

149. “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.” ― Warren Buffett

150. “Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1.” ― Warren Buffett

151. “I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.” ― Warren Buffett

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